Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 121
C H AP T E R T WO — FU L F IL M E N T OF PR OPHE C IE S 121 ٖ ھو الذی ینزل الغیث من بعد ما قنطوا وینشر رحمتہ یجتبی الیہ من یشاء من عبادہ ّ وكذالك مننّا علـٰی یوسف لنصرف عنہ السوء والفحشاء ولتنذر قومًا مّا اُنذر اٰباءھم فھم غافلون. قل عندی شھادۃ من الل ّٰ فھل انتم مؤمنون ان ّ معی ربّی سیھدین. رب السجن احب ّ الی ّ ممّا یدعوننی الیہ. رب ّ نجّنی من غمّی. These revelations are already recorded on page 516–5541 of Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya , but I have recorded them again at this place so that there remains no difficulty in understanding their meaning. The translation of this divine revelation is as follows: ‘God is He who sends down rain after people have despaired of it. After they have lost hope, He spreads His grace. And He chooses as Messenger and Prophet whomsoever of His servants He wishes. And so did We have mercy on this Y u suf, so that We may ward off and turn away from him all the sin and indecency that had been imputed to him. ’ In other words, it is God’s law of nature that whenever His Prophets and Messengers are maligned and slandered, He first allows the fault-finders and biased critics full occasion to indulge in their calum- nies and slander, and so they attack them eagerly and pin great hopes on their onslaughts, so much so that the community of the truthful, on account of their natural human weakness, begins to lose hope that the rain of divine grace will ever wash away this slanderous stain. And such indeed is divine practice that He sends down His rain and spreads His mercy, but at first, for a time He causes people to despair of it, so as to test their faith. Similarly are tested those who believe in God’s Prophet and Messenger. God’s Prophets are unjustly attacked by the mischievous, so much so that they are labelled ‘sinners’ and ‘transgressors’. And God allows these slanderers a good deal of respite so that they start believing that there is great strength in their objections and their fault-finding, and 1. In the 2008 edition of R uha n i Khaz a ’in, the referenced text appears in volume 1, pages 661–662. In the 2016 English translation of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part IV , this text appears on pages 432–433. [Publisher]